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I am SO psyched for this giveaway, because I love the Counting Crows! This summer, the Crows have released a new album, “Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)“, and are taking it on the road with The Outlaw Roadshow, which will feature some of their own favorite artists! The show will feature indie rock artists like We Are Augustines, Kasey Anderson and The Honkies, and Field Report.

Rules
This contest is only open to U.S. residents. All contestants must be over 18 years of age.

Winner
On or within a few days of 7/17/12, I will select two winners at random. Entries will be entered in order and one number will be selected at Randomizer.org. I will then contact the winners and the contest coordinator, who will then require your contact information to coordinate your prize. No information will be stored or used for any other purpose. Winners MUST contact me within 48 hours of sending notice. If I do not hear back within 48 hours, I will select a new winner.

Good luck!

Meanwhile, here’s some deets on their new album, which has songs that you can listen to online and a few tracks to download for free:

Produced by Counting Crows and Shawn Dealey, Underwater Sunshine features tracks written by artists such as Big Star, Gram Parsons, Tender Mercies, Kasey Anderson and The Faces. Each rendition offers an entire spectrum of human emotion, delivered with the conviction and intense honesty the band is known for.

As their first independent release, it was the right time for the Crows to make this album. “If you wonder why we didn’t just write our own record, it’s simply because we wanted to do THIS one,” says Duritz.

Highlighting the independent approach to the record, the Crows are giving away a free download of their new song, “Mercy” on http://www.countingcrows.com/

In addition, the band recently partnered with San Francisco’s BitTorrent Inc., offering four songs for free download, Adam Duritz’s liner notes, and high-resolution album artwork as a BitTorrent Bundle aimed directly to the young, digitally savvy users of the BitTorrent and µTorrent software. The tracks in the bundle include: “Untitled (Love Song)”, “Like Teenage Gravity”, “Hospital”, and “Meet on the Ledge”, and all are available for immediate downloadhere.

Listen to the entirety of Underwater Sunshine
(Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation) over at the band’s Soundcloud

My favorite Counting Crows song is Rain King, August and Everything After was my favorite album my senior year and I remember bouncing around to this song in my friends room while we yelled the lyrics. I had quite a crush on Adam Duritz!

My favorite song is ‘Round Here’ from the album August & Everything After. It’s a song that I think everyone can relate to. Adam is a lyrical genius. No one has the ability like him to express in such beautiful detail of human nightmares we often withstand in life.Tracy recently posted…Gary Wilson